Somali News

For the nine young authors of “Soo Fariista/ Come Sit Down: A Somali American Cookbook” (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 183 pages, $24.95), who are part of Wariyaa, Somali Youth in Museums, cinnamon-spiced lamb and lime-infused semolina cake is the taste of home.

Ever since Omar Fateh announced his run for a state legislative seat last December, he’s been taking note of a recurring experience on the campaign trail: It’s easy, at first glance, to mistake him for an immigrant or a refugee from Somalia.

NAIROBI, Aug 1 (Reuters) - The leadership of an exiled Ethiopian dissident group previously outlawed by the government has announced plans to return home in the wake of reforms led by new premier Abiy Ahmed.

STUTTGART, Germany — Hundreds of American troops in Africa would be reassigned and the number of Special Operations missions on the continent would be wound down under plans submitted by a top military commander, a response to the Trump administration’s strategy to increasingly focus on threats from China and Russia.

KAMPALA,UGANDA — As the Global Peace Conference opens in Uganda, heads of state, especially in the East African region, are trying to focus more on unity instead of fragmentation that has plunged the area into conflict.

A false Facebook posting about a Somali man attempting to abduct a woman from a St. Cloud Walgreens has police scrambling to snuff out a "dangerous false narrative" that has been reposted hundreds of times, spreading unwarranted "fear [and] anxiety."

President Donald Trump on Wednesday called on Attorney General Jeff Sessions to end a federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and whether there was any cooperation by his campaign with Moscow.

The Darushifa Rehabilitation Centre in Nairobi’s Eastleigh area has been closed, director of the National Authority for the Campaign Against alcohol Drug Abuse (Nacada) Vincent Muasya aka Chipukeezy has said.

Djibouti lies more than 2,500 miles from Sri Lanka but the East African country faces a predicament similar to what its peer across the sea confronted last year: It has borrowed more money from China than it can pay back.